THE CALL FOR MEN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14743, 23 October 1915, Page 3

THE CALL FOR MEN.

TORRENT OF RECRUITS WANTED. . CANADA DOES NOT WANT ~ | > SLACKERS. ,] LONDON, October 22. The Lord Mayor of London invites every man to take Lord Derby’s appeal personally to heart. He says we want a torrent of recruits to give a defiant message to Germany, and to pouf men into the field until Victory is won. The Canadian emigration officers in London are not assisting slackers to escape enlistment, and the latter have been told that Canada has no room for them at present.—Times and Sydney Sun Services. LORD DERBY’S EFFORTS, LONDON, October 22. Lord Derby has addressed a personal appeal to every man of military age not marked for other war services, asking him to re-consider whether the reason he has hitherto not enlisted holds good in the present crisis. RECRUITING IN AUSTRALIA. j URGENT NEED FOR MORE MEN. j SYDNEY, October 22. • i A feature of the new recruiting campaign is the addresses by returned soldiers and their pressing insistence on the urgent need to send immediate help to the boys in the trenches. ’’All the speakers have a sterner tone , than in the previous campaign, with the hint that events may require something stronger than the present system of voluntarism.. Though recruiting has improved, it is not fully up to expectations. AUSTRALIA’S RESOURCES. j MELBOURNE, October 22. . Of 551,961 war census cards,so far ♦sorted, 62% per cent, have been classed as fit, 32 per cent, doubtful,; and the remainder unfit. . . i ;— ' !